MUAR 392 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Bassline, Objectified, Camille Paglia
8 Sep 2017
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How: causal but confident body language; calm and stern expressions, soft delivery, slight southern slang, creative use of syncopation, sudden accelerations, gangsta references. Essay: compare and contrast two examples of musicians or groups that communicate authenticity in different ways. Notion of authenticity because he has experienced this: eminem in 8 mile (2002, 313: area code of detroit (inside references, self-deprecation, reference to 2pac shakir. Fear of rap: rap reflects the realities of the streets if it does, then you should have grown up there --> authenticity. Eminem and snoop dogg have this authenticity: like 50s r&b, early hip hop wasn"t threatening to the general public until it became popular. A common problem that men historically have where certain men are not able to be sexually aroused by someone they respect; the two are mutually exclusive. How would you describe them: they make african-american holy figures, o narrative: white guys assault a woman and a black man comes to help her.
